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Please review this page and do not hesitate to take a part in discussion.
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Once more Randal Schwartz was unavoidably detained with a client but everyone else made it: Jecel Mattos de Assumpção Jr, Ken Causey, Bert Freudenberg, Craig Latta, Andreas Raab, and Igor Stasenko.
We started today’s meeting discussing an addition to the New Community Development Model regarding Unit Testing which will be added to the document shortly. We also discussed the future of this document but came to no particular further decisions regarding it today.
We then discussed how external/contributed packages might be packaged with a future release and in particular how SqueakMap or Package Universes could contribute to providing an improved view of the available working packages for a specific release. Andreas Raab will be emailing Squeak-dev on this issue as soon as he is able.
We then discussed the proposed ‘Terms of Reference’ and a page with discussion of this topic can now be found on this site: Open discussion: Terms of Reference. Igor Stasenko will be announcing and explaining this more formally soon.
Briefly we discussed available free community server hosting options but further discussion was tabled until the next meeting so some research could be done first.
Our next meeting is scheduled for November 18th, 2009.
Server outages have continued over the past week or so. Most recently the power supply has been replaced and we are hopeful this will address the issue.
Update: The remote console was used to perform various hardware tests but ultimately no problems were found. The server was started back up as normal. We are still scratching our heads.
The community server went down again today, apparently around 16:19 UTC. This time we have requested a remote console which should allow us to check things more thoroughly and possibly diagnose a hardware cause. Expect an update once we know more.
Update: The most recent reset request was processed quickly and the server was back up by 16:35 UTC.
Update: This is beginning to feel like October 2008 over again more and more. The server was reset at our request and backup again at about 6:35 UTC Monday. Unfortunately by 15:50 UTC it was down again. Another reset has been requested.
Seemingly in a repeat of the events of last Sunday the community server was unreachable again as of about 8:18 UTC Sunday October 25th. We will request a reset again but as we don’t have weekend support it will not likely be processed until about 4:30 UTC Monday. This article will be updated as we know more.
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Randal Schwartz had an otherwise unavoidable business meeting and was unable to join us this week otherwise everyone else was in attendance today: Jecel Mattos de Assumpção Jr, Ken Causey, Bert Freudenberg, Craig Latta, Andreas Raab, and Igor Stasenko.
We started the discussion with a review of the recent server outage. We still don’t know the cause was but are suspicious that the uptime was almost exactly one year and if this server is still up in six months a manual reboot may be in order. At some point we will discuss this further regarding replacing the server but paying for things like this will be simpler when we are part of the Software Freedom Conservancy. However we will investigate using hosting sharing/free hosting options in the near future.
Not long before our meeting we were asked to consider defining our Terms of Reference with regards to how the Squeak Oversight Board interacts and communicates with the community and with teams in particular. We discussed this for a while but this is a somewhat complex topic and input from the community will be necessary in this process. We plan to discuss this in more detail at our next meeting on November 4th.
We discussed unit testing in Trunk and the increasing level of failures and errors. Ken Causey will update the New Community Development Model document with a basic policy regarding unit tests and will investigate providing a roughly weekly report regarding the changes in the unit tests in Trunk. Check back here for updates on this.
Next we discussed the inclusion of Monticello 1.6 in Trunk and clarified our common understanding of a number of related issues but came to no particular decisions yet.
If you haven’t listened to it yet you might want to check out the recent appearance of Bert Freudenberg and Andreas Raab on Industry Misinterpretations.
Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday November 4th, 2009.
Update 10/19/2009 18:30 GMT – Once the hosting company processed our reset request it seems that everything came back up fine with a little assistance where needed (thanks Bert). The server has been back up since around 0:00 GMT and so the total downtime seems to have been just about 24 hours
Update 10/18/2009 22:30 GMT – We have requested a server reset but this is not likely to be done until at least 5:30AM GMT Monday.
This is just a quick note to confirm that we are aware that the community server is currently down and are in the process of rectifying this. I have no explanation at this time but will be updating this notice as more is learned.
It appears that the server began having trouble around 5:30 AM GMT.
Sadly almost exactly a year ago we had serious trouble with the server for about a month including about a week of outage. Hopefully this outage will be much less severe.
Should we be paying attention to something? Let us know…
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